Óscar Muñoz( Popayán, 1951) is the least auratic author of this first group, which ends with him. And he is the less auratic, even if his work includes many portraits of people 4. The reason for this paradox is that these people are anonymous; their stories don’ t matter, the ideas they bring forth do.
What does Muñoz talks about? His work refuses the abbreviated definition of a subject. In it lies the impulse that moves living beings, the mystery that inspires them. It also has to do with a sensitive meta-language that generates rifts between techniques, and seeks a visual inventive that makes it possible to allude to life in an unexpected way, and to its forced antithesis, death.
Muñoz makes grafts with photography, eliminates its connatural grimace through amazing strategies, exquisite at the same time, to set out the idea of image as a course, and the course of images as an analogy of existence. The reflection, refraction, the poetry of the vital process and the ways it may be interrupted. bramales, 2008, installation view, Sicardi Gallery www. sicardi. com www. LivingArtRoom. com 75